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photography, film, radio, television… visual culture(s); influence of Hollywood Cinema and American Television; a special focus on crime and issues continental countries would handle with stringer respect for privacy – perspectives on the historical development. Freedom of the press – implemented relatively early. A commercial system. BBC in England, private media in the US…; feading television; rise of television (à la Tichi's ''Electronic Heath'')! capitalism and the media; public service vs. market;
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Was there a special climate that promoted both the rise the British Empire and the USA to become leading suppliers of new technologies? Royal Society, University Systems (compared to Europe), private capital and research. Present debates (e.g. genetic engineering…) in which Anglo Saxon countries show a special flexibility.
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Something from Gender and Science Studies: Discourse about women's access to universities and the laws of thermodynamics. (German example, not sure about British/American context)
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Heinsohn, Dorit: Physikalische Wissenschaften als Geschlechterwissenschaften? Einschreibungen physikalisch-chemischen Wissens in den Diskurs über das Frauenstudium um 1900. In: Ariadne - Forum für Frauen- und Geschlechtergeschichte, Heft 41 (2002), S. 17-25
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Heinsohn, Dorit: Physikalisches Wissen im Geschlechterdiskurs. Thermodynamik und Frauenstudium um 1900, Frankfurt am Main 2005

Latest revision as of 18:45, 14 July 2008

Was there a special climate that promoted both the rise the British Empire and the USA to become leading suppliers of new technologies? Royal Society, University Systems (compared to Europe), private capital and research. Present debates (e.g. genetic engineering…) in which Anglo Saxon countries show a special flexibility.

Something from Gender and Science Studies: Discourse about women's access to universities and the laws of thermodynamics. (German example, not sure about British/American context) Heinsohn, Dorit: Physikalische Wissenschaften als Geschlechterwissenschaften? Einschreibungen physikalisch-chemischen Wissens in den Diskurs über das Frauenstudium um 1900. In: Ariadne - Forum für Frauen- und Geschlechtergeschichte, Heft 41 (2002), S. 17-25 Heinsohn, Dorit: Physikalisches Wissen im Geschlechterdiskurs. Thermodynamik und Frauenstudium um 1900, Frankfurt am Main 2005